The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

He had spent the evening at Edinburgh Castle celebrating his second marriage and overseeing a meeting with royal advisors.

They stayed at Edinburgh, and at Taymouth Castle in Perthshire, the home of the Marquess of Breadalbane.

Stained glass window in St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh | St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle

* Edinburgh Castle

In addition, the city is home to a large number of independent, fee-paying schools including Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriot's School, George Watson's College, Merchiston Castle School, Stewart's Melville College and The Mary Erskine School.

Pipers emerging from Edinburgh Castle during the Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Lightshow at Edinburgh Castle during the Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Running concurrently with the summer festivals, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo occupies the Castle Esplanade every night, with massed pipers and fireworks.

View from the royal apartments of the Stewart monarchs, Edinburgh Castle.

Bruce crowned King of Scots ; modern tableau at Edinburgh Castle

In March 1314, James Douglas captured Roxburgh, and Randolph captured Edinburgh Castle.

Bruce statue at the entrance to Edinburgh Castle

A 1929 statue of Robert the Bruce is set in the wall of Edinburgh Castle at the entrance, along with one of William Wallace.

In 1818, Scott and a small team of military men unearthed the honours from the depths of Edinburgh Castle.

Statue of Wallace at Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle was her dowry.

The sudden death of Mary of Guise in Edinburgh Castle on 10 June 1560 paved the way for an end to hostilities, the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh, and the withdrawal of French and English troops from Scotland.

On 30 April 1571, the controller of Edinburgh Castle, Kirkcaldy, ordered all enemies of the Queen to leave the city.

On 3 July 1996 it was announced in the House of Commons that the Stone would be returned to Scotland, and on 15 November 1996, after a handover ceremony at the border between representatives of the Home Office and of the Scottish Office, it was transported to Edinburgh Castle, arriving on 30 November 1996, where it remains along with the crown jewels of Scotland ( the Honours of Scotland ) in the Crown Room.

The goldsmith watched the progress of his pupil with interest, and introduced him to David Martin, who had been the favourite assistant of Allan Ramsay the Latter, and was now the leading portrait painter in Edinburgh.

Allan Ramsay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the eldest son of Allan Ramsay, poet and author of The Gentle Shepherd.

The portrait of his wife also shows the influence of French art, an influence which helped greatly to form the practice of Ramsay, and which is even more clearly visible in the large collection of his sketches in the possession of the Royal Scottish Academy and the Board of Trustees, Edinburgh.

Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the Royal High School and the Trustees ’ Academy under Alexander Runciman, and, having been apprenticed as an heraldic painter to a coachbuilder, he, at the age of sixteen, attracted the attention of Allan Ramsay, who took the youth with him to London, and employed him upon the subordinate portions of his works.

* a bust of Wardlaw Ramsay in the Scottish Missionary Society Hall, Edinburgh, 1838

* a statue of artist Allan Ramsay at the foot of The Mound in Edinburgh, 1850.

* a monument to Dean Ramsay east of St John's Church, on Princes Street Edinburgh, 1875.

At this time the Edinburgh school of geologists, prominent among them Sir Andrew Ramsay, with his Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain were maintaining the supreme importance of denudation in the configuration of land surfaces, and particularly the erosion of valleys by the action of running water.

Shortly after that, a new implementation known as WPOP ( for WonderPop ) was implemented by Robert Rae and Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh, on a research-council funded project.

The Scottish portraitist Allan Ramsay worked in Edinburgh before moving to London by 1739.

Edward Bannerman Ramsay ( 1793 – 1872 ), a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and Dean of Edinburgh in that communion from 1841, has a place in literature through his Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, which had gone through 22 editions at his death.

Robin Ramsay ( born 1948, Edinburgh, Scotland ) is an author, and co-founder and editor British editor of the magazine, Lobster.

In 1817, with John Ritchie, John Ramsay McCulloch and William Ritchie, he established The Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh and at first acted as its editor.

By 1642, the first official skating club, The Skating Club Of Edinburgh, was born, and, in 1763, the world saw its first official speed skating race, on the Fens in England organized by the National Ice Skating Association.

David Benson's 1996 Edinburgh Fringe show, Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams, saw Benson playing Williams ; after touring, the show ran in London's West End.

2008 saw the band in Eindhoven Netherlands playing at E-Day ( an electronic music festival ); later in the year they also played the Night of the Prog Festival in Loreley, Germany, as well as concerts at the Kentish Town Forum, in London on 1 November, at the Picture House, Edinburgh on 2 November, and their first live concert in the USA for over a decade, at the UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles on 7 November.

At this time, border changes saw several villages on the outskirts of Edinburgh ( e. g. Whitecraig ) become part of East Lothian.

The year 1964 saw the gradual demise of the Royal George Hotel as the prime focal venue of the Sydney Push which dispersed its bustling social life to other traditional venues like the Newcastle, Orient and Port Jackson hotels in The Rocks near Circular Quay and the Rose, Crown and Thistle at Paddington, but also to alternative central-city pubs including the United States and Edinburgh Castle.

The medieval period saw the construction of the Great North Road, the post road connecting London to Edinburgh, which ran through Beeston.

In his diaries, Dickens states that Scrooge stems from a grave marker which he saw in 1841, while taking an evening walk in the Canongate Kirkyard in Edinburgh.

The Second Jacobite Rising of 1745 saw Charles Edward Stuart lead his army of Highlanders past Stirling on the way to Edinburgh.

In Edinburgh, Jenners saw a similar development.

1842 saw the opening of Queen Street Station as the Glasgow terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Together, the two men negotiated with Sir William Cecil to secure English aid against the regent, Mary of Guise, and were largely responsible for the negotiation of the Treaty of Edinburgh in 1560, which saw the triumph of the Congregation and the withdrawal of French and English troops from Scotland.

After Kemble's death, The Edinburgh literary journal wrote, " Kemble was perhaps the best Sir John Falstaff which the British stage ever saw.

One infamous incident saw Best initially sacked by Hibs after he went on a massive drinking session with the French rugby team, who were in Edinburgh to play Scotland.

Reciprocal acquisitions saw the Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh and the Northern Clubs ' Federation Brewery in Gateshead added to the business.

A restructure in 2011 saw the closure of the ChildLine bases in Exeter and Edinburgh, with Swansea relocating to Cardiff.

Jameson's support for Neptunism, a theory that argued that all rocks had been deposited from a primaeval ocean, initially pitted him against James Hutton ( 1726 – 1797 ), a fellow Scot and eminent geologist also based in Edinburgh ( but not in the university ), who argued for uniformitarianism, a theory that saw the features of the Earth's crust being caused by natural processes over geologic time.

It saw combat in the Action of Saint-Éloi and throughout the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, before the division was withdrawn and moved to Salonika in November, where it spent the rest of the war It was sent to Georgia in December 1918 for operations against the Bolsheviks, and returned to Edinburgh in May 1919.

The year saw the commencement of new scheduled sun routes to Lanzarote, Tenerife and Gran Canaria operated by Ryanair as well as a new route to Edinburgh operated by flybe.

Alastair Fowler, Regius Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, to whom Lewis served as a doctoral supervisor, wrote in 2003 that he saw portions of The Dark Tower including the Stinging Man and discussed them with Lewis in 1952.

A 29-12 win over Edinburgh, with two rounds of the competition still remaining, saw the team crowned Celtic League champions.

When producer John Mayer ( not the young American blues one-the Edinburgh Label Owner one ) saw the band rehearse he thought they were the rawest band he'd ever seen.

Richard Herring saw Paul performing there and cast him in his play Punk's Not Dead at the Edinburgh Fringe.

" When Spurzheim came to Edinburgh in 1816, Combe was invited to a friend's house where he saw Spurzheim dissect a human brain.

Another notable attempt to raise money for Children in Need, saw him ride a bicycle towing a rickshaw 484 miles from Edinburgh to London.